Cognitive correlates of depression in regular education and emotionally disturbed children /
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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1989.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Abstract: | Depressed children, from a nonclinical (Regular Education) and a clinical (Special Education on basis of Emotionally Disturbed) population, were hypothesized to show cognitive processes similar to those of adult depressives. The Cognitive Deficits Questionnaire, Peer Nomination Inventory of Depression (Regular Education, only) and Children's Depression Inventory were administered, as part of two cognitive tasks (Information and Coding subtests of WISC-R), to 120 fourth to seventh graders. Four groups were formed on the basis of two depression criteria and two types of educational status. Little support was found for the research hypotheses that depressed children set higher criteria for success and lower criteria for failure than nondepressed children. No meaningful difference was found in the reality of criteria setting among the four groups. Depressed children predicted poorer future predictions, for both tasks. On the Information test, depressed Regular Education and depressed and nondepressed Emotionally Disturbed students used more depressogenic attributes than nondepressed Regular Education students. Depressed and nondepressed Regular Education and depressed Emotionally Disturbed children used fewer nondepressogenic attributes than nondepressed Emotionally Disturbed children. Depressed children used more attributes for failure. For the Information subtest only, both groups of depressed and nondepressed Regular Education children used fewer attributes for success than nondepressed Emotionally Disturbed children. Significant ancillary findings between Regular Education and Emotionally Disturbed children were also obtained. Implications for research and practice are given. |
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| Item Description: | Typescript (photocopy). Vita. "Major subject: School psychology." |
| Physical Description: | xv, 190 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |